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• November 13, 2010
• 12:00

  Final Take on the Machine: winners

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  It’s finally here, the last episode of Scion’s Take on the Machine with Mitch Altman. In this episode all the teams are given a recap over their success and failures, and the clear winner is placed on top. We’re not ones to spoil the surprise so you’ll just have to click the link and watch [...]

  Tags:  scion machine episode mitch-altman surprise misc hacks  

• November 07, 2010
• 5:13

  The Transistor Takes on the Machine

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  It only took 4 hackerspaces, but we finally get to see a zombie movie inspired project; hackerspace The Transistor Takes on the Machine with a Dawn/Shawn of the Dead movie theme. Race cars disguised as zombies swarm toward the players, who then use laser tag like guns to “shoot” down the approaching undead. The whole [...]

  Tags:  transistor movie machine dawn shawn race-cars laser-tag shawn-of-the-dead-movie arduino hacks  

• October 31, 2010
• 12:13

  Large magnets spark on Halloween, who knew?

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  This overly large magnet certainly completes the mad scientist look (for an even crazier look, take a jar of water with red food coloring and place in one large cauliflower, instant brain in a jar). The base of the magnet is painted foam cut with a makeshift hot-knife; to get the magnet sparking [Macegr] laser [...]

  Tags:  magnet jar look brain-in-a-jar mad-scientist hot-knife misc hacks  

• 11:12

  Mechanical mustache envy

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  While this mechanical mustache isn’t made for a Halloween costume, it certainly looks like part of one. Copper clad, brass, cable, and a few other bits come together in a similar style to tension based hands; the piece is then worn much like a Mardi Gras mask. To complete the rustic “old tyme” look [John] [...]

  Tags:  mustache envy mechanical john mardi-gras-mask old-tyme halloween-costume wearable hacks  

• October 30, 2010
• 15:00

  TV out for TI calculators using the link port

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Do people enjoy wasting 300$ on a bulky convoluted system, that only works for special “Teacher Edition” calculators, and is several years out of date; E.G. the TI-Presenter? [Benryves] certainly does not. So instead of purchasing a TI-Presenter, he made his own TV out system for the TI brand of calculators by using an ATmega168, [...]

  Tags:  ti-presenter link system teacher-edition e.g. ti-calculators own-tv peripherals hacks  

• October 28, 2010
• 6:16

  Artisans Asylum Takes on the Machine

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  You’ll probably lose your appetite after watching part one and part two of Artisans Asylum as they Take on the Machine. Based around the Wallace and Gromit “automated” set of contraptions, the team from Boston set out to make their own breakfast machine. Of course, with only three weeks to work it didn’t exactly turn [...]

  Tags:  asylum artisans machine wallace boston wallace-and-gromit breakfast-machine contraptions misc hacks  

• October 26, 2010
• 13:49

  Portal…shirt?

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Ben Heck] is in the Halloween spirit with his Portal inspired “see through” t-shirt. That is, a thin lcd is mounted on [Ben's] chest, with a not as thin camera mounted on his back; when the system is running, everything behind him is captured by the camera and displayed on the LCD. The concept isn’t [...]

  Tags:  lcd camera portal ben-heck ben halloween-spirit t-shirt digital cameras hacks  

• 6:33

  PC game controller with a touch of class

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  The above is a specially designed game controller made by [Giorgos] solely for the RTS game Men Of War (now that’s dedication to a game). [Giorgos] started off with a rough breadboard and 11 buttons. Slowly overtime he included a joystick, countdown timers, and the wonderfully lit case. Under the hood is a couple of [...]

  Tags:  controller game giogos countdown-timers rts-game game-controller home entertainment hacks  

• October 23, 2010
• 14:00

  Marx Generator, knocks our rocks off

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  What weighs more than 500 pounds, produces 500 kilovolts, and we don’t recommend you try at home in any way shape or form? If you guessed a rock disaggregation device, you’re correct! We also accepted lightning generators as correct answers. Using high voltage electricity, a rock can be split apart down to its grains without [...]

  Tags:  generator rock marx marx-generator voltage-electricity kilovolts misc hacks  

• October 21, 2010
• 6:39

  Crash Space Takes on the Machine

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  It’s that time again, time to take on the machine with the Hackerspace, Crash Space (and part two)! The team of Californians set out and successfully turned the front of their building into a musical instrument, similar to [David Byrne's] Playing the Building. When a pedestrian walks by they set off distance sensors, which in [...]

  Tags:  space crash machine david-byrne crash-space californians digital audio hacks  

• October 20, 2010
• 9:00

  New Dynamic Duo, Arduino and Eclipse

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  There are a lot of solutions to programing an Arduino: the default avr-g++, Studio, etc. But [Sandeep] let us know about using one of the more powerful IDEs out there, Eclipse, to do the same. We’ve already outlined why Eclipse is a great IDE but now the fact that you can use it in your [...]

  Tags:  new arduino eclipse sandeep dynamic-duo programing hacks  

• 6:40

  Plantenna: the plant antenna

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  The back story behind [Mike] experimenting with plants as AM radio transmission antennas antennae is rather interesting and worth the short read. But for those who just want the facts, [Mike] took an ATMega324, modified the PWM output into a sinusoidal AM signal (using a simple form of RLC circuitry), and connected the circuit to [...]

  Tags:  antenna plantenna plant mike transmission-antennas pwm-output radio-transmission Wireless hacks  

• October 18, 2010
• 14:16

  Cheap and easy SMS via GSM for your MCU

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Non acronym version of the title: send and receive text messages via cell phone communication towers using an Arduino or other microcontroller. “We’ve been doing that for years!” you cry, well yes, technically. But [Fincham] lays it outs simply; commercial offerings are expensive and finding a cell phone that uses RS232 now a days is [...]

  Tags:  sms cell phone easy-sms commercial-offerings communication-towers arduino hacks  

• October 17, 2010
• 6:45

  Homemade music player

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Sadly, this pocket mp3 wav player doesn’t come close to the capabilities of even an iPod generation 1 yet, but you have to give [Owen] props for making it in less than 24 hours. The system consists of a Propeller MCU (cleverly wired to be swappable with “shields” similar to Arduino systems), SD card for [...]

  Tags:  homemade player music owen homemade-music music-player propeller digital audio hacks  

• October 14, 2010
• 14:00

  Pumping Station: One takes on the machine

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Part one and Part two of Hackerspace Pumping Station: One taking on the Scion challenge are up and ready for your viewing pleasure. The team at Pumping Station: One built a Tron themed bicycle that when setup properly, would churn ice cream that turned your urine neon in about 6 minutes by using dry ice [...]

  Tags:  pumping-station dry-ice scion transportation hacks  

• October 12, 2010
• 6:06

  Take me back to a simpler time, Radio Flyer

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Fred Keller] and [Judy Foster], both retired, are proving that age is just a number. What you see above is a nostalgia inducing full size driveable Radio Flyer red wagon. The base of which is a 1976 Mazda pickup truck, while the wagon portion is a mishmash of wood, fiberglass and bondo, detergent bottles, and [...]

  Tags:  radio flyer wagon judy-foster fred-keller radio-flyer-red-wagon detergent-bottles mazda-pickup toy hacks  

• October 10, 2010
• 6:53

  Human Theramin, one step closer to cyborgs (not really)

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Oh [Humberto], what will you think up next? A human Theremin you say, and it’s for Halloween? Certanly this will blow last years creepy capacitance sensing jack-o-lantern out of the water right? Eh, not really, but still cool none-the-less. By using pairs of IR LEDs and IR photo-transistors, [Humberto] makes a simplistic distance sensor. Then [...]

  Tags:  step human theramin humberto photo-transistors ir-photo jack-o-lantern digital audio hacks  

• October 08, 2010
• 6:34

  Turtles all the way down, 40 Propeller MCU skyscraper

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Why bother interconnecting 40 Propeller microcontrollers one on top of the other? For the power that comes from parallel processing of course! [Humanoido] put the setup together for a total of 1280 ports, 640 counters, and more all running at 6.4 billion instructions per second for the low low price of 300-500$ by our count. [...]

  Tags:  mcu way propeller parallel-processing microcontrollers microcontrollers  

• October 07, 2010
• 9:00

  NYC Resistor Takes on the Machine

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Here we are with Episodes two and three (aka, NYC Resistor part one and two) completing the Take on the Machine Hackerspace challenge we mentioned a while back. For the challenge NYC Resistor took an old style slot machine and converted it into a drink mixing deviant; even making the device post a Tweet for [...]

  Tags:  nyc machine resistor tweet old-style beer hacks  

• 6:14

  Arduino, RFID, and you

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Matt] has mixed up a batch of two RFID reading door lock systems. While the “door lock” part of the setup has yet to come into existence, the “RFID reading” section is up and running. By using the Parallax RFID readers (for cheap, remember?) and an Arduino, [Matt] is able to parse an RFID tag, [...]

  Tags:  arduino reading rfid matt rfid-readers rfid-tag existence hacks  

• October 05, 2010
• 13:00

  Cheap(er) biometric gun safe

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Greg] sent in his biometric pistol safe lock. He keeps his guide light on details so not every Joe can crack the system (there is a thread to sift through if you really wanted to), but the idea runs fairly simple anyway. [Greg] took an old garage door opening fingerprint scanner and wired it into [...]

  Tags:  gun lock pistol joe greg fingerprint-scanner safe-lock gun-safe security hacks  

• 6:59

  Bronze casting with MakerBot

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  That, dear readers, is the smell of a new Hackspace opening up in Davenport Iowa. It is also the lovely scent of burning plastic. Because how do you celebrate a new Hackerspace? By casting bronze coins of course! Begin by having a MakerBot extrude plastic coins, then compact the plastic coin in sand to produce [...]

  Tags:  makerbot bronze plastic iowa plastic-coins bronze-coins davenport-iowa misc hacks  

• October 02, 2010
• 10:00

  R/C PPM hacked

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Thomas Pfeifer] has taken the PPM signal produced by model aircraft wireless controllers, and with an ATMega8, converted the signal to act as a USB joystick. Which means you can now use a standard R/C remote control to fly model aircrafts on your computer. Of course now with PPM decoded you could also use the [...]

  Tags:  signal aircraft model thomas-pfeifer c-ppm model-aircrafts usb-joystick atmega8 Wireless hacks  

• September 30, 2010
• 15:00

  Launchpad takes ultra low power to the extreme

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  We’ve all known the MSP430s under the Launchpad are designed to be low power, but who wants to bet how long the chip can last on only 20F worth of capacitors? A couple of hours? A day at max? [Kenneth Finnegan] setup a MSP430 with supercaps to find out. To make sure the chip is [...]

  Tags:  launchpad msp power kenneth-finnegan supercaps msp430 finnegan misc hacks  

• September 29, 2010
• 10:00

  Lazarus-64, not actually 64 bit but still blows our minds

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Lazarus-64, breadboard game system; certainly sounds like something from the 1980s. We were surprised to find out not only the name, but also all the ICs used are only those available from the retro age of 30 years back (Save for the AVR controlling everything, of course). Even more amazing is how it has 256 [...]

  Tags:  breadboard lazarus bit game-system home entertainment hacks  

• 6:37

  Woot lights and mice transplants

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Nathan Long] sent in two fairly simple mods he’s been working on. The first is the control of Woot-off Lights via LPT port. A computer checks Woot for the Woot-off logo, and if the logo is spotted, on go the lights. It’s really just a twist on the LED/Arduino email message system, but the creativity [...]

  Tags:  woot woot-off logo nathan-long computer-checks arduino misc hacks  

• September 26, 2010
• 9:20

  From cinema to stills, camera lens gets new life

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Timur Civan], with a beautiful merge of past and present, has taken a 102 year old camera lens (a 35mm F5.0 from hand cranked cinema cameras) and attached it to his Canon EOS 5D. While this is not the first time we’ve seen someone custom make a camera lens or attach a lens to a [...]

  Tags:  lens camera cinema timur-civan d.-while canon-eos-5d old-camera camera-lens digital cameras hacks  

• September 23, 2010
• 15:00

  You’ll shoot your eye out, another coilgun

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  All we needed to read was 4x 3900uF capacitor bank to know we had yet another decently sized homemade coilgun on our hands. And for the math buffs, that equates out to 1.25kJ of potential energy (efficiency kills it down to 37j of kinetic, but large numbers are more fun) which is more than enough [...]

  Tags:  eye coilgun shoot math-buffs capacitor-bank misc hacks  

• September 21, 2010
• 9:00

  Hackerspace competition: looks promising

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  This is what happens when [Mitch Altman] comes together with hackerspaces nationwide to have a contest. In short, 5 hackerspaces  will “take on the machine” and come up with 5 original ideas for existing devices. There are a few more rules, but you can catch them in the video in the link above. There is [...]

  Tags:  competition contest hackerspace mitch-altman news  

• 8:00

  Machined steadicam, steadier than the rest

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  No, the picture above is not a store made steadicam. Rather, a CNC machined one by [Matt]. Interestingly, unlike most steadicams we’ve seen before the gimbal is not the main focus of the design though an aluminum machined gimbal would make us drool. The central idea is allowing for X and Y axis adjustment to [...]

  Tags:  steadicam machined gimbal matt central-idea drool video hacks  

• 6:00

  New term for art: Sculptural Robotics

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Dan Roe] has been working on Sculptural Robotics for quite some time, and most recently presented his newest creation: Solar Flowers 2010. Typically, Sculptural Robotics (coined by [Dan] himself) are stand alone, static art presentations made from electronic components and wire. [Dan] of course has taken it quite a bit further; giving all his sculptures [...]

  Tags:  sculptural art robotics dan-roe dan art-presentations static-art quite-some-time classic hacks  

• September 19, 2010
• 7:10

  As promised: more industrial robot goodness

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Remember [Mattythorne]? He took a BMW industrial arm and re-purposed it to write twitter messages on a white board. You can read a small excerpt here. Well [Matt] is back, and as promised includes an entire write up for how he got @scribblebot scribbling twitter messages.  It’s a little light on details and we wish [...]

  Tags:  robot goodness twitter matt industrial-robot excerpt robots hacks  

• September 16, 2010
• 6:25

  Dead motor? Think again

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  While hobby brush motors are pretty cheap now adays, there’s always that feeling of why replace when you can rebuild and reuse. As such [John Carr] presents how to change the brush position in motors to revive a dead motor. So long as the motor dies from natural causes commutator wear, the idea is the [...]

  Tags:  dead brush motor john-carr classic hacks  

• September 14, 2010
• 16:32

  Quadbike: bigger is better

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Tom Wilson] has finished his latest human powered quadcycle. The BigDog, as its called, seats 4 persons in lawn chairs who pedal to their destination. We say latest, for [Tom] also made a slightly smaller version called The DogSled. Some improvements include being taller (8 feet total), larger (11 feet by 6 feet), and surprisingly [...]

  Tags:  quadbike bigdog quadcycle tom-wilson tom lawn-chairs transportation hacks  

• 6:35

  5 Tones, 1 Arduino

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Because the Arduino is in such high demand for producing multiple musical tones at the same time; [Jeremy Blum] has successfully figured out the math and other necessaries that will take your once previously single tone producing MCU and turn it into a 5 tone producing machine. unsurprisingly its really just some creative use of [...]

  Tags:  arduino tones tone jeremy-blum time-jeremy musical-tones hacks  

• September 11, 2010
• 13:08

  Keypad door lock, better than last years keyfob?

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  It’s that time of the year again. The leaves are changing colors, it’s getting colder outside, and all the littler hackers are off to college. Which means we get to see an influx of dorm room locks and openers. [Adam] is back at it again with a new keypad dorm room lock. Last year he [...]

  Tags:  room dorm keypad adam room-locks changing-colors influx home hacks  

• September 10, 2010
• 15:01

  Internet controlled remote

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  How often does this happen to you? You’re leaving on a long trip, and half way there you remember the TV was left on. Never? Alright then, how about wanting to control an Xbox 360 from within the other room and you don’t have the remote. Still a rare occurrence? Perhaps you have a better [...]

  Tags:  internet trip way rare-occurrence xbox-360 long-trip home entertainment hacks  

• September 09, 2010
• 6:27

  Revive a DockStar and get so much more

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Firestorm_v1] has done a fabulous writeup on not only resurrecting his dead DockStar with JTAG, but also includes some handy techniques and useful information that could be used with other hardware and JTAG equipped devices. The tutorial itself goes into the details of finding the JTAG, correctly identifying the ports and making an adapter cable. [...]

  Tags:  revive jtag dockstar handy-techniques adapter-cable classic hacks  

• September 07, 2010
• 14:17

  Re-purpose industrial robotic arms

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  We must find out where you can acquire these industrial robots pictured above. Sure, you expect car companies like BMW to have a few lying around, which they used to make into a Twitter message writing robot. But Bungie, a video game company, to have one as part of an advertisement for Reach? The former [...]

  Tags:  bmw re-purpose car video-game-company industrial-robots robotic-arms robots hacks  

• September 05, 2010
• 9:19

  Self playing Bayan built nearly 22 years ago

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  The year is 1988, where a Russian engineer [Vladimir Demin] has combined a Bayan, or button accordion, with several (we lost count at about 96) solenoids. If that alone doesn’t blow your mind the computer, also hand built by [Vladimir], controls the whole process leaving the operator to only work the bellows. Putting truth to [...]

  Tags:  year self bayan vladimir vladimir-demin button-accordion russian-engineer demin digital audio hacks  

• September 04, 2010
• 8:30

  Shovel…guitar?

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  We didn’t believe this hack at all when we saw it, or rather heard it. Surly a guitar made out of a shovel couldn’t sound decent. But the video (after the jump, skip to 2:40 for the jam) to our untrained ears sounded pretty rad. Could be the supremely well done wood work, proper use [...]

  Tags:  didn shovel guitar hack ears digital audio hacks  

• September 01, 2010
• 16:51

  LED suit lights up the night

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  When the tipline popped up with this LED suit, part two, by [Marc DeVidts] we were expecing a simple led version of the previously known EL coat. Well we were right and wrong in the same instance. Correct in that like predictions, the outcome is stonking great. Wrong in that this suit far outpaces EL [...]

  Tags:  led night suit marc-devidts tipline wearable hacks  

• 14:56

  Alarm clock learns new trick, opening doors

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Waking up at 5:30 in the morning. [Mark Stead] didn’t like the idea either when his chickens started crying to be let out. One simple solution obviously is to eat the chickens build an automatic door opener. The mechanism starts out with an old style mechanical alarm clock, add a geared motor with some creative [...]

  Tags:  alarm trick clock mark-stead automatic-door-opener opening-doors misc hacks  

• August 30, 2010
• 6:15

  DWex watch looks for future development

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [FlorinC] sent in his DWex Arduino watch, with intentions for it double as an experimenting base. Inspired by the MakerBotWatch, it runs an ATmega328P, DS1337 RTC,and 24 LEDs to display the time. [FlorinC] tells us the (yet to come) case and strap will be similar to Woz’s watch to ensure airport security tackles him. As [...]

  Tags:  development dwex florinc rtc airport-security leds clock hacks  

• August 26, 2010
• 12:29

  So you want to make a Command Line Interface

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Keba] not only asked Answeres.HackaDay.com, but also sent us an email as follows. “Can you make a basic guide to designing a good Command Line User Interface?” Wouldn’t you know the luck, I’m currently working on a Command Line type interface for a project of mine. While after the jump I’ll be walking through my [...]

  Tags:  line interface command command-line-interface type-interface user-interface how-to  

• August 24, 2010
• 9:58

  PET-Gaming Computer Module

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  This 64×48 full color LED display goes much further than we expected at first glance. The display is actually a computer with a Zilog eZ80F91 core utilizing an FPGA for the hardware interface. Some nifty applications currently built include mostly games, but there is also visualizations, network file systems, video streaming, and even a MIDI [...]

  Tags:  display pet-gaming computer full-color-led-display hardware-interface computer-module led hacks  

• August 23, 2010
• 8:17

  A different take on electric motor cars

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Craig Carmichael] has been hard at work on his electric hub motor for cars. Unlike typical electrical vehicles the plan is to bypass the transmission, differential, and everything else all together by connecting directly to the hub of the wheel. The goal of giving greater thrust and still allowing the use of a gas engine [...]

  Tags:  hub take motor craig-carmichael hub-motor electrical-vehicles transportation hacks  

• August 21, 2010
• 11:00

  Vector plotter with lasers

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Hubert] sent in his experiments using HDDs, CDROMs, speakers, and other components to make an XY laser plotter. Those carefully reading will note, its not all three to make one plotter, but rather three plotters each using a separate system. The setups have their advantages and disadvantages, and [Hubert] is sure to point them out; [...]

  Tags:  hdds vector plotter hubert plotters laser hacks  

• August 18, 2010
• 10:50

  Needs more LEDs, EMSL biggified Conway’s Game of Life

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has proven bigger is better with their colossal LED table running Conway’s Game of Life. At the heart of the system is 44 ATmega164Ps controlling 352 LEDs on a 32×44 inch table; and to make it interactive IR LEDs detect the presence of objects. The display is set up as an [...]

  Tags:  interactive-ir mad-scientist game-of-life home hacks  

• August 17, 2010
• 10:09

  Ride fly: Segway DIY

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  The video above is the final working DIY Segway from [sb-scooter]. The website and build log don’t have a lot of information at the moment, but you can still gawk at several pictures of the construction (and a picture is worth 1000 German words). For those looking for the nitty gritty, with some quick math [...]

  Tags:  ride segway diy german-words worth-1000 nitty transportation hacks  

• 6:27

  Super simple Arduino setup lowers electricity bills

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  An Arduino with 40 lines of code, a temperature resistor, and servo are all that’s truly needed to save some dough with this thermostat by [Peter Hamilton]. LEDs and a potentiometer are added as well to help set and read the desired temperature. With or without said additional parts, the hack is still ridiculously simple [...]

  Tags:  temperature super arduino peter-hamilton electricity-bills home hacks  

• August 15, 2010
• 7:00

  YM2149 gets new life

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [MicroMinded] took us way back to our childhoods with his experiments and subsequent YMstream music player based on the Yamaha YM2149 sound generator used in old arcade systems, computers, and even phones (think chiptune). This reminds us of the Chipophone, only this time the sound is achieved from ICs used back in the day, rather [...]

  Tags:  microminded sound life arcade-systems sound-generator systems-computers digital audio hacks  

• August 13, 2010
• 5:49

  Cybraphon, rocks hard to the mood of the internet

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Start off with a beat, wood sticks on cigar boxes will do. Add some chimes as accent, a Farfisa organ or record player for a voice, several other instruments for harmony and dissonance, and you’re still just on the tip of the iceberg for understanding Cybraphon. Not only is this antique wardrobe completely autonomous, playing [...]

  Tags:  internet mood cybraphon antique-wardrobe cigar-boxes farfisa-organ home entertainment hacks  

• August 12, 2010
• 14:00

  2 foot tall POV globe

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Ytai] let us know about his POV globe, all four parts of its current progress. While he says he was inspired to write up the project from a YouTube clip, we know the real reason. Regardless, the plan is to have a 2 foot diameter globe with 256 LEDs spinning at 50 revolutions per second [...]

  Tags:  ytai globe foot pov diameter-globe foot-diameter youtube-clip led hacks  

• August 10, 2010
• 6:36

  Out now: EL coat, Coming soon: EL hat

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Render] says his coat is simply “enhanced with EL wire”, but we know the truth. He’s secretly an alien that can’t block out all of his glowing green skin with a the black coat. No? Fine, You can put away the sewing machine, [Render] simply used a needle and fishing line to attach ~50-70 foot [...]

  Tags:  hat coat render sewing-machine fishing-line green-skin wearable hacks  

• August 09, 2010
• 5:59

  Spin Peggy, get 3D POV

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  We put a temporary ban on posting POV projects after receiving several LED spheres back in May. But we had to lift the injunction after seeing this superb Volumetric 3D POV display by [Wes Faler] and [Don Smith]. Their creative use of several readily available components adds to the alluring setup; the central elements being [...]

  Tags:  led spin ban wes-faler d-pov pov peggy don-smith volumetric-3d central-elements  

• August 07, 2010
• 5:13

  Texas Instruments watch claims it’s a computer mouse

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Jack Toole] and his team [Aaron King] and [Libo He] sent in their computer interface dubbed the Chronos Flying Mouse. The video above explains the concept very thoroughly, but we’ll reiterate some of the highlights here. The project uses a Chronos EZ430 with its accelerometers to wirelessly transmit delta positions of the user’s wrist. Add [...]

  Tags:  chronos mouse computer aaron-king jack-toole flying-mouse computer-interface pcs hacks  

• August 05, 2010
• 5:40

  PCB trace antenna

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  If you’re working on a device that includes RF wireless, [Colin's] Guide to PCB Trace Antenna Design might clear some headaches when sending off for PCBs. While it is directed at devices transmitting at 2.4GHz, the techniques and recommended equipment (read: espresso smith charts and network analyzers) should work for almost any frequency. While trace [...]

  Tags:  pcb antenna device colin antenna-design smith-charts rf-wireless Wireless hacks  

• August 04, 2010
• 7:41

  All metal hot end for Makerbot

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  Imagine if you will for a moment, you’re printing along on your Makerbot clone and all of a sudden your PTFE hot end melts, what are you going to do now? One solution is to mill your own all metal end from a bolt with some careful drilling. Or you could follow [Peter Jansen] who [...]

  Tags:  end makerbot metal peter-jansen bolt clone cnc hacks  

• August 02, 2010
• 8:00

  Hardware hack 3D, software still needed

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  If you’re on the fence about 3D TV and related technologies [Anton B.] might be able to help you decide. No, he’s not going to shove pamphlets in your face and explain why its the wave of the future. Rather, by showing the hack-ability (its a word) of 3D shutter glasses. A simple bridge of [...]

  Tags:  Hardware Software fence anton 3d-shutter-glasses hardware-hack wave-of-the-future home entertainment hacks  

• 7:00

  Jailbreak your Apple products

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  It’s finally here, after being declared completely legal to jailbreak your iPhone, JailbreakMe 2.0 is released. Now, any and all iDevices can be jailbroken by simply visiting the URL above; however, before you start your devious adventure in the land of apps not approved by big brother Apple, there are a few issues. The webpage [...]

  Tags:  apple jailbreak iphone apple-products big-brother macs hacks  

• August 01, 2010
• 8:19

  Save a baby, nursery temperature monitor

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  Yes, you could argue this Nursery Room Temperature Monitor is simply an LED and an Arduino with a temperature sensor, but [Jay] really did put more thought into the process. For instance he stuck with AVR, built a wooden base and sanded globe, and even included schematics and source code. Plus, SIDS is no laughing [...]

  Tags:  temperature nursery monitor jay nursery-room temperature-monitor arduino home hacks  

• July 30, 2010
• 11:00

  Elegant wearable computer

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  [Jason Statham] [Martin Magnusson] wrote in to tell us about his adventure in building a wearable computer. The device in its current state is a Beagleboard running Angstrom Linux tethered to an iPhone for internet. A bluetooth keyboard allows for input, while output is displayed on monocle-ized Myvu. And last but not least, the entire [...]

  Tags:  elegant adventure computer jason-statham martin-magnusson myvu beagleboard wearable hacks  

• July 28, 2010
• 6:10

  Extra extra: Now legal to jailbreak iPhone

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  For those living under a rock, the latest ‘greatest’ news to hit hacking front page is the the Copyright Office granting Six Exemptions Regarding the Circumvention of Access-Control Technologies. Of the six the one of the two regarding iPhones is as follows, “(2) Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where [...]

  Tags:  jailbreak iphone extra access-control-technologies iphones wireless-telephone news  

• July 27, 2010
• 13:30

  200 mile RF transmitter (and high altitude balloon)

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  If there is one thing we like, it’s a fellow hacker so enthusiastic about his or her work that they write the article practically for us by including as much detail and information as possible. In this two part hack, [Scott] wrote in to let us know not only about a high school built high [...]

  Tags:  mile altitude transmitter scott high-altitude-balloon fellow-hacker rf-transmitter arduino hacks  

• July 26, 2010
• 7:27

  Long arms required, electronic trombone

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  Sadly, the video above is the only information we were able to find on the “Double Slide Controller” trombone, built by composer Tomás Henriques. As well as, the instrument took first place in the Georgia Tech Center Guthman Musical Instruments Competition. Right in front of a Bluetooth bow for violins, and a circuit bending group [...]

  Tags:  trombone video information georgia-tech-center double-slide violins digital audio hacks  

• July 22, 2010
• 17:24

  All that’s needed is a retro paintjob, miniMAME

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  [Tim's] miniMAME‘s construction follows the “light and cheap” approach, using foam core board and hot glue. Sure it won’t last a nuclear attack, but at least it’s light enough to carry to a friend’s house. With a removable netbook at the core, CCFLs, speakers, trackball, and mini arcade fighting stick, the project completely surpassed our [...]

  Tags:  minimame core retro tim foam-core-board hot-glue mini-arcade home entertainment hacks  

• July 21, 2010
• 10:00

  Break out the two-ply, Ecobot III poops

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  Imagine our surprise when this article on Ecobot III and the disgusting video above showed up in our feed. The robot can theoretically be self-sustaining forever, so long as it has a food source. Yes, you read correctly, food. Typical robots relying on grub burn the biomass to produce heat/steam/energy, but Ecobot III actually digests [...]

  Tags:  iii ecobot food steam-energy food-source news  

• July 20, 2010
• 14:00

  iPhone 4 steadicam

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  It’s been a while since we’ve seen a steadicam, and to quench our thirst is this  iPhone 4 steadicam. The system does use the typical 3 axis PVC gimbal and heavy weight setup that we’ve seen before, but (why has it taken so long to get this implemented?) the addition of a hand grip means [...]

  Tags:  while steadicam iphone gimbal news  

• July 19, 2010
• 5:56

  Xbox 360 hard drive adapter (redux)

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  [Chlazza] let us know about their Xbox hard drive to SATA adapter, allowing the use of an Xbox 360 (original) hard drive on a PC without voiding the drive’s warranty. Looking for a fun and enriching experience read: really bored and inspired by a previous adapter we featured, [Chlazza] set out to make their own [...]

  Tags:  adapter drive xbox xbox-hard-drive xbox-360-hard-drive xbox-360 hacks  

• July 17, 2010
• 17:00

  Lolo’s (perfect moment) alarm clock

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  It seems everybody has a different interpretation of the perfect alarm clock. [Loic Royer's] alarm clock is not the loudest, or the smartest, but does have some interesting features. By monitoring several environmental factors like temperature, air quality, humidity, dew point, and your own sleep patterns, this alarm clock can determine the best moment in [...]

  Tags:  moment clock alarm sleep-patterns alarm-clock temperature-air arduino hacks  

• July 15, 2010
• 14:00

  3D printing with chemicals

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  From the horse’s mouth, “In this lithography experiment light creates free radicals from phenylbis(2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phosphine oxide which induce polymerization of 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate.” Or for those without a Chemical Engineering degree, light from a (high resolution) projector interacts with a special liquid, producing a hard polymer on the surface. A platform within the liquid is lowered, taking [...]

  Tags:  printing horse liquid degree-light free-radicals engineering-degree cnc hacks  

• July 14, 2010
• 11:44

  3 camera booms for your Wednesday afternoon

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  [Andrew] tipped us off about his Cable Cam built out of some lumber and clothes line. It is small enough to fit into a backpack,  includes a safety line and the camera can pan and tilt. A future version is planned with a small remote motor to move the trolley more effectively. [Andrew] accidentally linked [...]

  Tags:  wednesday camera afternoon andrew camera-booms clothes-line safety-line digital cameras hacks  

• July 13, 2010
• 11:30

  Shred air with Theremin Hero

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  Remember those Ebay auctions of air guitars going for several thousands of dollars? We don’t either, but Theremin Hero (more info in the YouTube description) is about as legit as you can get to actually rocking on nothing but air. Much like using a theremin to control Mario, the vertical antenna acts as the fret [...]

  Tags:  air shred theremin hero remember mario ebay-auctions vertical-antenna air-guitars digital  

• July 12, 2010
• 6:14

  Make your own toner transfer paper

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  Who would have thought that some corn starch could be made into toner transfer paper? We’re not sure of the advantages (perhaps its cheaper?), but if you have a lot of time or just love to get sticky [Matthew Sager] shows the proper method for making the paper, printing, and then etching a PCB. If [...]

  Tags:  toner paper transfer matthew-sager corn-starch toner-transfer-paper paper-printing misc hacks  

• July 08, 2010
• 11:20

  Stylin’ HMD

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  Watch out, these sunglasses are actually a head mounted display. [Staffan] says he’s wanted dataglasses since ’95, but whats currently out there makes the user look ridiculous, and we have to agree. While his forum posts are a little lacking in detail, he’s promised us more info soon. And for now lets us know at [...]

  Tags:  hmd watch stylin head-mounted-display forum-posts sunglasses home entertainment hacks  

• 4:11

  Wear a helmet, rollerblades with attitude

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  Wireless controller, more powerful custom-made motors, stronger frame, and with a name like DeathBlades, we can’t think of a single reason why you would prefer heel treads, well everyone was young at one time. [Charleg] has been testing out a slightly new frame, despite having only half the motors necessary, and is getting great results [...]

  Tags:  helmet frame attitude single-reason new-frame rollerblades transportation hacks  

• July 07, 2010
• 10:00

  Nexus one gets Linux

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  Considering how hackable the Nexus One is already, we can only imagine a whole new host of interesting things thanks to Ubuntu running on the device. [Max Lee] set his heart out on getting not just Ubuntu on the Nexus One, but also Debian, and he wrote a perfect install guide to help out those [...]

  Tags:  nexus ubuntu linux max-lee interesting-things android hacks  

• July 04, 2010
• 13:00

  Wireless presenters easily cracked

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  While hacking a wireless presenter doesn’t sound like something worthwhile or interesting, [Niels Teusink] demonstrates that these little devices often are a lot more powerful than we give them credit. With an Arduino, plenty of research, and some heavy sniffing of a wireless presenter’s SPI and then wireless interface [Niels] is able to emulate an [...]

  Tags:  presenter Wireless doesn niels-teusink niels wireless-presenter wireless-interface wireless-presenters security hacks  

• July 03, 2010
• 11:40

  Free laundry redux

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  [Koala] was worried his pseudo smart card trick wouldn’t be considered a HackaDay worthy. We’re more worried the internet police will find this article and have us all tarred and feathered. Jokes aside, it seems Laundromat owners sure aren’t learning. Long story short, using a Bus Pirate and a few techniques we’ve seen before for [...]

  Tags:  laundry koala redux laundromat-owners free-laundry internet-police security hacks  

• July 02, 2010
• 8:00

  Three pendulum harmonograph

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  Just the other day we were thinking “You know what we need more of around here? Harmonographs!” And our requests were answered when [Paul] sent in his three pendulum harmonograph. For those unaware, it’s a mechanical device that draws Lissajous curves or “really cool circles” to quote some of our staff. [Paul] includes all the [...]

  Tags:  pendulum day harmonograph paul lissajous-curves mechanical-device misc hacks  

• July 01, 2010
• 6:02

  Project Apex, Apad mod

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  [Carnivore] tried to break as many (unofficial) records as possible when he modified his Apad/M002 into what he calls Project Apex. Record number 1: [Derek] claims this is the first Apad mod, ever. Record number 2: 8500mAh battery, giving the device a 12 hour life which is longer than any other Android slate. Record number [...]

  Tags:  apad number record derek unofficial-records carnivore android hacks  

• June 30, 2010
• 10:23

  Holy robin trap Batman!

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  [Matt Meerian] introduced us to his kludge of cardboard, tape, mirrors, and electronics in the form of a clever non lethal robin trap. Whenever a pesky robin would enter the box, a sensor is triggered, the solenoid drops a lid, and the bird is contained (and we assume taken far away after that). Of course [...]

  Tags:  trap holy robin matt-meerian kludge solenoid cardboard home hacks  

• June 27, 2010
• 11:10

  Now you see me, now you don’t, face detection scripts

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  Straight out of Ghost in the Shell, the Laughing Man makes his appearance in these security camera shots. [William Riggins] wrote us to let us know about his teams Famicam scripts. After taking a screen shot, faces are detected and counted, ‘anonymized’, and the final image is uploaded to Twitter. The process is rather simple, [...]

  Tags:  straight detection face william-riggins detection-scripts ghost-in-the-shell face-detection security hacks  

• June 24, 2010
• 6:35

  Fusion, in my backyard?!

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  Here is the 32nd amateur fusion reactor built in a basement. [Mark Suppes] is right behind [Will Jack], the (then) 17 year old [Thiago Olson], and [Mileiux] in engineering a homemade nuclear reactor. By taking two light elements and colliding them under extreme speed and pressure, a heavier element and energy are produced. [Mark's] goal [...]

  Tags:  backyard fusion reactor thiago-olson jack mark mark-suppes fusion-reactor nuclear-reactor news  

• June 23, 2010
• 7:00

  iPhone 4 teardown

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  iFixit traveled all the way to Japan to bring you this iPhone 4 teardown, only to be shipped the device unexpectedly two days early! We were surprised that the A4 processor (its naked body displayed for the world this past April) contained within the iPhone 4 had 512MB of ram, compared to the 256MB of [...]

  Tags:  teardown ifixit iphone japan naked-body hacks  

• June 17, 2010
• 11:00

  Student Soaker, wireless water gun

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  As far as pranks go, [Austin Shaf's] wireless hidden water gun is a real treat. The video above goes over a brief explanation and shows the setup in action. The prankster holds onto a wireless AVR remote, and when the unsuspecting victim walks by, he activates a second AVR controlling a pump; spraying water everywhere. [...]

  Tags:  gun avr water austin hidden-water shaf unsuspecting-victim misc hacks  

• June 15, 2010
• 14:00

  (Real) Stargate built in backyard

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  PVC, wood, and some creativity bring this Stargate duplicate to life. [Mango] and his father started with AutoCad drawings taped together, and ended with the Stargate you see before you. Sure it’s not 22 foot in diameter and not made of Naquadah, but its inner ring rotates and dials like the real thing and it [...]

  Tags:  pvc backyard stargate autocad-drawings naquadah misc hacks  

• June 14, 2010
• 12:05

  Monster Chess

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  Over 100,000 Lego pieces, 4 people a year to create, and a 12 foot by 12 foot chess board make this the largest most awesome Lego hack we’ve ever seen. Take that Lego Printer. For a mere $30,000 you too can have such a setup. Not a lot of information is out yet, but we [...]

  Tags:  lego chess foot lego-pieces chess-board toy hacks  

• June 13, 2010
• 16:10

  World’s slowest Porsche, still faster than my car

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  Well, maybe the title is not so true. This “Porsche” GT3‘s construction is a bit unorthodox, the chassis looks to be aluminum tubing, with bicycle tires and other man-powered parts for propulsion. The body is entirely plastic and tape, yeah…gold…foil…tape. Hey, when you really really want to turn someones head. Regardless, the car even comes [...]

  Tags:  tape porsche car bicycle-tires aluminum-tubing gt3 transportation hacks  

• June 12, 2010
• 13:40

  Wireless accelerometer project

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  [Jerome Demers] sent us his extremely detailed semester project. The two part system consists of PICs connected to XBee modules and accelerometers. By using the device a coach can monitor an athlete and correct their minute mistakes. Did we mention [Jerome] was very detailed? He also goes into the particulars of designing the circuit, using [...]

  Tags:  accelerometer Wireless project jerome jerome-demers semester-project accelerometers hacks  

• June 11, 2010
• 14:29

  Wiimote controlled Ruben’s tube

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  While we could be content following our “kiddie d-day” as [Caleb Kraft] suggested. We know you can’t continue such an awesome Friday without trying to blow yourself up first. This Wiimote Rubens’ tube caught our eye. A PVC Aluminum irrigation pipe is drilled with holes and propane is pumped through. A speaker on one end [...]

  Tags:  wiimote tube content ruben caleb-kraft irrigation-pipe d-day caleb digital audio hacks  

• June 09, 2010
• 13:15

  (mini)How-To: Refill your DTG inks

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  The number one and number two things asked after presentation of our DIYDTG were… “How does it hold up in the wash?” and… “How did you change out the inks?” While we’ve explained the first several times (regular ink washes out, DTG ink gets a little lighter but survives) we can hopefully answer the second [...]

  Tags:  ink dtg number ink-washes inks lighter how-to  

• June 08, 2010
• 16:00

  DUO 128 Elite, 4 bit CPU

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  We’re not sure how we missed [Jack Eisenmann's] 4 bit TTL CPU when we were tipped off the first time, but we’re glad it was sent in again for us to feature it. 41 different ICs (mostly TTL) come together to comprise the DUO 128 Elite. While the architecture is a little different than what [...]

  Tags:  elite bit duo jack-eisenmann elite-4 eisenmann architecture misc hacks  

• 15:00

  An Arduino Watch you would actually want to wear

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  Leather work, copper tubing, small easy to use package. Now that is a beautiful Arduino Watch. [Matthew Garten] has retrofitted his old Arduino Watch and given us the details that we crave. Previously, all we had was a video and a few pictures of a quite uninviting watch. But now we know it has temperature, [...]

  Tags:  arduino leather watch matthew-garten copper-tubing leather-work garten hacks  

• June 06, 2010
• 6:00

  How-to: DIYDTG

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  For those unaware, the little acronym above stands for Do-It-Yourself-Direct-To-Garment printing. In layman’s terms, printing your own shirts and designs. Commercial DTGs can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 which for the hobbyist who only wants a few shirts is ridiculous. So you would think this field of technology would be hacked to no end, [...]

  Tags:  diydtg how-to acronym direct-to-garment-printing hobbyist layman  

• June 05, 2010
• 6:00

  BP oil blunders

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  We received a very interesting “hack” today from our good friend [Jonny Dryer] that really got us thinking, but first a little background. For those that live only inside of a box on top of a mountain (we know who you are), there was an explosion of a British Petroleum oil rig about 40 miles [...]

  Tags:  oil friend today bp-oil petroleum-oil oil-rig news  

• June 02, 2010
• 13:00

  Easy data input for LabVIEW

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Props go to [Michael Nash] for establishing an interface between National Instrument’s labVIEW and an Arduino (an example video using a potentiometer is above). Personally, from the one time we were forced to use labVIEW, we hated every second of it. One reason it’s so terrible, is the Data Acquisition Modules cost well into the [...]

  Tags:  labview props input michael-nash acquisition-modules arduino hacks  

• May 31, 2010
• 13:00

  May the Phorse be with you

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  The PhorsePOV by [Julian Skidmore] almost slipped by, but we thought it was a nice easy hack for your Memorial Monday. The gadget uses an ATTINY25 to drive 6 LEDs aren’t standard characters 7 units high? Which when waved in the air produces a readable message. What we were really interested in is the use [...]

  Tags:  phorse may phorsepov julian-skidmore easy-hack readable-message attiny25 led hacks  

• May 29, 2010
• 9:47

  SPRIME controlled AC outlets

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Reader [Tim Upthegrove] sent in a novel take on powering and monitoring AC outlets and devices called SPRIME, or Simple Powerline Remote Interactive Monitor and Enforcer. Compared to previous hacks, such as 120v switching or Quick cheap remote outlets, that only turned an outlet on or off; SPRIME allows not only control over outlets via [...]

  Tags:  novel sprime reader tim-upthegrove ac-outlets upthegrove hacks home  

• May 23, 2010
• 13:20

  Spark plug music

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  This is (video above) perhaps the most abstract way of playing sounds…ever. Yes, we’ve heard Hard Drive music and Obsolete technology bands, but [DJ Sures] brings us the first ever, spark plug instrument. Much like Velcro and Teflon, the musical spark plug is claimed to be an accident. After testing energy use vs. spark power with [...]

  Tags:  spark plug music drive-music obsolete-technology spark-plug digital audio hacks  

• May 22, 2010
• 14:00

  Open Source STM

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  We hope you paid attention in advanced theoretical and quantum physics classes, or making your own Open Source Scanning-Tunneling Microscope might be a bit of a doozy. We’re not even going to try to begin to explain the device (honestly we slept through that course) beyond clarifying it is used for examining the molecular and [...]

  Tags:  attention stm source scanning-tunneling-microscope quantum-physics physics-classes misc hacks  

• May 20, 2010
• 6:47

  Keyboard input for PlayStation

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  Anyone who has tried their hand at RPG Maker 1 (or any text input with a controller) knows how difficult it can be typing long paragraphs into the console. [Thutmose] is here to save the day with Kupid 1.0 (2.0 in production). A PICAXE takes ps/2 keyboard input and converts it to a series of [...]

  Tags:  keyboard playstation input keyboard-input picaxe thutmose peripherals hacks  

• May 19, 2010
• 7:05

  Mister Gloves, gesture input

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  This two handed glove input setup, by [Sean Chen] and [Evan Levine], is one step closer to achieving that [Tony Stark] like workstation; IE, interacting with software in 3D with simple hand gestures. Dubbed the Mister Gloves, the system incorporates accelerometer, push button, and flex sensor data over RF where an MCU converts it to [...]

  Tags:  mister gloves input evan-levine sean-chen tony-stark gesture-input flex-sensor handhelds hacks  

• May 16, 2010
• 13:30

  Lunkenheimer steam whistle, doorbell

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  We’re going to straight out agree with [Pete] on how surprisingly quiet doorbells are now a days, and if we had it our way we would put his Lunkenheimer train whistle doorbell in every home*. The setup he uses is surprisingly simple, opting for a pre-built wireless doorbell that signals a microcontroller which in turn [...]

  Tags:  steam lunkenheimer doorbell pete steam-whistle wireless-doorbell train-whistle home hacks  

• May 11, 2010
• 16:45

  Digikey sort by price script

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Does anyone else find it a little ironic the electronic retailer SparkFun is advocating scripts to help Digikey have a Sort By Price function? Regardless, to reiterate now Firefox (and we hear Google Chrome too) users with the Greasemonkey plugin can sort Digikey items. Personally, some of us here are just Mouser fans at heart. [...]

  Tags:  digikey price sort sparkfun google electronic-retailer news  

• May 08, 2010
• 11:51

  Nimbus, portable N64

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  We love a beautiful and successful N64 portable mod, (In case that fact wasn’t already obvious). And today we would like to add [cndowning's] Nimbus N64 to our list of favorites. The base is made from vacuum formed plastic while the buttons come from a modified superpad and the screen is a Zenith 5inch. We [...]

  Tags:  case mod fact nimbus superpad zenith n64 handhelds hacks  

• 6:29

  Cornell final project list

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Looking for an interesting project to do using an Atmel Mega644? Students at Cornell University have got you covered. They were required to choose, design, and build a project using the microcontroller; and this year is quite promising with video object tracking, the always popular theremins, helicopters, Potentiostats, even Pavlovian conditioned mosquitoes, and more. Of [...]

  Tags:  list cornell project video-object cornell-university atmel misc hacks  

• May 05, 2010
• 12:12

  Mad machinist masterpieces

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  If a picture is worth 1000 words, by our count, [Ryan Commbes] has said 1.68×10^6 different things about his custom robot, airsoft, and monster truck builds. While we’re not ones to pick favorites, we agreed his Alpine TPG-1 (picture at the top) build is a step above the rest. Sadly, the forums with his build [...]

  Tags:  machinist count picture ryan-commbes monster-truck worth-1000 1000-words misc hacks  

• 6:10

  Remote operated underwater vehicle

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  PVC hull, SLA batteries, Bilge Pumps, sounds like a good start to [Jimmy's] ROV project. Paintball gun (as a BCD), dual live cameras paired with an Arduino making it internet controlled, all tethered with a fiber optic cable, sounds like [Jimmy's] ROV got a whole lot more astounding. While some very important parts have yet [...]

  Tags:  rov vehicle remote jimmy bilge-pumps sla-batteries fiber-optic-cable robots hacks  

• May 01, 2010
• 14:00

  Custom headphones solve wire tangles

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  One complaint we hear about often is ear-bud’s cables getting tangled within backpacks. [Andrew] was having this “spaghetti” wire problem, and also wanted to listen to his music with ear protection on – where ear-buds are usually uncomfortable. The latter problem is fixed by placing speakers inside of folding ear protectors, and the cable is [...]

  Tags:  problem wire ear andrew ear-buds ear-bud ear-protectors peripherals hacks  

• April 30, 2010
• 8:00

  Perfect spiral, every time

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  [Carmine] let us know about his team’s Automated Football Launcher. Their goal was to combine a football launcher with motion tracking, to allow a player to practice running and catching with the perfect throw. Unfortunately, and we’re not quite sure when, they ended up changing out the Jugs machine for an air cannon, which resulted [...]

  Tags:  launcher perfect football air-cannon perfect-spiral carmine misc hacks  

• April 28, 2010
• 4:33

  Part arcade, part guitar

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Finally a guitar that all of the arcade gaming geeks can jam with. [Mike Davenport] sent us his 8bit arcade based guitar for his senior project. Details are a little sparse if you intend to build you own at the moment, but he does mention the basics: such as it uses an FPGA for logic [...]

  Tags:  arcade part guitar mike-davenport arcade-gaming project-details digital audio hacks  

• April 22, 2010
• 6:00

  USB VU-meter

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  WaitingForFriday’s [Simon Inns] is quite possibly the USB interface and PIC master. This week he let us know about his VU-meter repurposed as a computer performance monitor using a PIC18F2550 and his open source USB Generic HID communication class. With PWM the meter’s needles and RGB LED can be accurately set and even dampened for [...]

  Tags:  vu-meter usb pic simon-inns pic-master communication-class repurposed peripherals hacks  

• April 20, 2010
• 7:07

  GPS embedded in visor

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  We’re all for putting a GPS where it doesn’t normally go, but we’re not sure [Roberto's] version* is the best of locations. Take for example [Jair2k4's] GPS. It doesn’t block out 50% of his vision of the road and the impending accident in front of him. Regardless, the solid aluminum and seamless mounting really does make [...]

  Tags:  gps doesn visor roberto aluminum transportation hacks  

• April 17, 2010
• 12:03

  Zune gets hacked, OpenZDK

   » ‎ Hack a Day
  Here is one that really got some of us at the HAD offices excited (yes, we own Zunes). The introduction of the Open Zune Development Kit. Sure, there was XNA, and we even toyed around with it. But anyone will quickly realize just how limited XNA is, especially with older hardware. OpenZDK is in its infancy, [...]

  Tags:  zune xna openzdk infancy development-kit digital audio hacks  

• April 16, 2010
• 7:11

  Beer can pinhole camera

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  When [Justin Quinnell] sent in his beer can pinhole camera, we were just floored. The parts are easy to obtain, and the process for building and ’shooting’ with the camera are near effortless. The really impressive part of this hack is letting your camera sit for 6 months facing the sun. Yes, you read that correct, [...]

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• April 15, 2010
• 9:00

  Ask HackADay: Organization?!

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  Several people have been asking a similar question to, “How do you at Hackaday keep track of and organize all your equipment?” -[Jeff Allen] and others. We have a variety of resources to help you keep track of your tools, equipment, parts, and supplies! Follow us after the jump for some tips for keeping your workspace clean and [...]

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• 7:21

  Punching accelerometers

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  Shortly after finishing his Makiwara punching bag, [Abieneman] wired and programmed an Arduino to an accelerometer to find out just how much acceleration (and with some math, force) is behind his punches. The project is simple and would be quick to reproduce for your own measuring and experiments: all that he used included an Arduino, [...]

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• April 10, 2010
• 14:27

  Ask HackADay: Network Security Camera

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  Today we received the question, “How to control a web cam via internet, i want to use it for security reasons, always out of the house and my PC connected want to open the cam from time to time to checkout if something wrong!!” - [Mohamed Saleh] What a fun project we thought! And so many different ways [...]

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• April 08, 2010
• 14:19

  Hacking the MindFlex, more!

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  Reader [Eric] sent us a powerfully informative, yet super simple hack for the MindFlex toy. Don’t worry, it’s not another worthless shock ‘game’, And it’s using an actual interface instead of the built-in LEDs. With two wires for the serial protocol, and an Arduino, you’ll be able to view “signal strength, attention, meditation, delta, theta, low [...]

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• April 06, 2010
• 13:39

  Third-person vehicle

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  Here is something we didn’t expect (NSFW). The machinima crew behind RedVsBlue, Rooster Teeth, actually did a hack! The idea is simple enough, how could you experience driving a vehicle like in a video game – aka, third-person. With some steel bar, Canon 5D camera, and a 15inch monitor inside of a blacked out cab, they [...]

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• April 03, 2010
• 15:13

  iPad teardown

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  Its been quite a while since we’ve featured something from iFixit. But when we saw they had torn apart the next greatest Apple product, the iPad – released today, and how everyone on our team loves it, we thought why not also let our user base enjoy the destruction informative teardown as well. In both the [...]

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• April 01, 2010
• 6:20

  Core3Duino (April fools?!) and xDuino

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  It’s inevitable. You knew it, we knew it, and while this is being posted on April 1st; its no joke. [johndavid400's] Core3Duino. As we mentioned before, with the additional Arduinos you have now 3 separate processors, allowing 24digital IO, 18 PWM, 18 analog inputs, and more. Now to keep flamers at bay (calm down), we’ve combined [...]

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• March 30, 2010
• 8:00

  (the) FIRST Robotics competition

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  What weighs 120 pounds, can fly at you near 20mph, score soccer balls, climb 90inch tall towers and more all while remotely controlled? If you said a robot from this years FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, competition congrats you’ve won one internet. This past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (March 25-27 respectively) the [...]

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• March 25, 2010
• 6:11

  $500 Craigslist car competes against $400,000 race car…

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  …and wins. Well, 3rd in class, but still surprisingly well for such a cheap entry. This is truly a show that with enough elbow grease and headlight fluid anything can be accomplished money just makes it a ton easier. Everything from the roll cage to the 5 minute gas tank fix was fabricated by [Bill Caswell]. [...]

  Tags:  race craigslist car bill-caswell elbow-grease gas-tank transportation hacks  

• March 23, 2010
• 15:38

  Didgeridoo, now does real time video

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  Some of you may remember when we introduced you to [Kyle's] Electronically Modified Didgeridoo. Those same members will have their hearts warmed knowing he’s still playing and advancing on his Didgeridoo, now including real time video processing. There isn’t too many details aside from it being controlled by an ATMega168 and an unknown analog switching [...]

  Tags:  video time didgeridoo analog real-time hearts digital audio hacks  

• 6:10

  1-Wire LAN with an LCD

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  [Viktor], one of our favorite avid hackers, has been playing around with 1-wire systems all this month. What started out as a MicroLAN Fonera has turned into an iButton interface, to a 1-wire powered hub, and finally a 1-wire character driven LCD. Anyone looking at 1-wire systems or OWFS could surely benefit from his testing. However, [...]

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• March 21, 2010
• 14:00

  More functional GPS in minutes

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  [Sparky] notified us of his hack to allow interaction with the core of an Aldi GO Cruise 4300 GPS Windows CE OS. All that’s required is a few programs and registry edits to the GPS, which anyone can accomplish within a few minutes. But we suggest you go slow and double-check your work; nobody wants [...]

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• March 20, 2010
• 8:06

  Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor’s dream ride

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  While surfing one of our favorite websites, we came upon this little jewel. We can’t really tell if this is hack-worthy, or just a deathtrap, so to help decide… Mechanics crawler + 80cc motor – safety concerns = deathtrap It’s really that final “Brakes? Why would I need to stop?” that puts this project over the edge. [...]

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• March 16, 2010
• 13:00

  Pure TTL based clock

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  We’ll just say, [Kenneth] really likes clocks. His most recent is a pure 7400 series TTL based one, ie no microcontroller as seen in the past, here, here, and here. The signal starts out as a typical 32,768 crystal divided down to the necessary 1Hz, which is then divided again appropriately to provide hours and [...]

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• 7:06

  Keep tabs on your car without OBD-II

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  [Steve] let us know about his MultiDisplay car monitoring system. Unlike traditional systems that rely on interfacing with the OBD-II protocol and existing car computer, the MultiDisplay uses an Arduino and custom shield with a combination of sensors; including temperatures, pressures, throttle, Boost, and etc. The data collected can then be displayed on a 20×4 [...]

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• March 14, 2010
• 9:00

  Storage for your hacking needs

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  Sometimes your project needs a lot of non-volatile ROM, right on cue [Matthew] let us know how to not only connect, interface, read, and write to SD cards with a PIC over serial, but also how to do the above mentioned with an old PATA HDD. For those without a PIC/serial connection don’t fret, [nada] [...]

  Tags:  serial pic storage matthew serial-connection sd-cards hdd misc hacks  

• March 10, 2010
• 14:29

  Coffee powered Car-puccino

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  We can only imagine how amazing this coffee burning car smells at it speeds down the highway at a maximum of 60mph. Don’t jump out of your seat so quick to get your own, while the idea sounds fantastic, the mileage will bring you back to earth rather quick. At 3 miles per kilo of [...]

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• March 08, 2010
• 15:50

  Cardboard Androids

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  Who needs expensive acrylic based, microcontrolled robots with only a few sensors available when cardboard and an Android cellphone will work much better  for much less in cost! The team over at Cellbots have done just that. While they did cheat a little by using a laser cut cardboard for exact measurements and including an [...]

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• March 07, 2010
• 15:37

  Don’t worry occifer, there is no blood in my alchohol!

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  [Daniel] wrote up a quick tutorial on interfacing with the MQ-3, or better known Breathalyzer from SparkFun with Arduino. While we would have used perhaps an op-amp/comparator based system and kept it in a much smaller package, the idea was so quick and simple and enjoyable we hoped an article might keep some hackers from [...]

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• March 06, 2010
• 7:08

  Lucid dreaming

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  When we saw [merkz] use of an Arduino to produce lucid dreaming we were quite shocked. Unlike typical setups that just flash a light through sleep, his system monitors eye movement through electrodes and is able to send the data to a computer for graphing and analyzing.  The only problem being we couldn’t find a [...]

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• March 04, 2010
• 9:23

  Home cinema 3D (or just tick off theatergoers)

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  After a visit to the local theater and discovering the use of IR 3D glasses (for films such as Avatar), the team over at Furrtek wondered how they worked, and more importantly, how the glasses could be manipulated to tick off audience members. While the original intentions seem a bit childish, they did mention that [...]

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• March 02, 2010
• 6:00

  Portable Squeezebox with serial

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  The Squeezbox media streaming systems are compact Linux WiFi enabled radios that let you stream your collection anywhere,so long as you have an AC or USB outlet nearby. But [Achim Sack] wanted to stream his collection from anywhere with no wires attached (translation). Some poking and prodding revealed a connector actually designed for a battery [...]

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• February 28, 2010
• 12:26

  Fix 0LBA and BSY HDD errors

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  One of the worst moments almost every hacker has experienced is a hard drive inexplicably dieing. And of course, its at the most inopportune time and you’ve had no chance to backup! Recently there has been an influx of Seagate hard drives (specifically the 2700.11s) kicking the bucket with firmware errors 0LBA and BSY. The good [...]

  Tags:  bsy fix lba inopportune-time influx seagate peripherals hacks  

• February 27, 2010
• 8:26

  WRT54GL, meet Alice

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  When it comes to routers, there is one that is hacker’s favorite, the WRT54GL. But a slightly lesser known company, Pirelli with their “Alice Gate2 plus Wi-Fi”, seems to be a popular choice among our Italian friends. [Esteban] has done everything from installing serial and parallel ports, to unlocking firmware while installing Debian. Our personal favorite [...]

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• February 26, 2010
• 10:00

  Drilling perfectly centered holes

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  If you’ve ever been caught in the situation of needing to drill a clean straight hole down the center of a bolt or rod, you’ve probably tried and ended up with a broken bit or tilted hole, and a ton of cursing to boot. [Vik] let us know about this nifty trick for drilling ‘down the [...]

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• February 14, 2010
• 9:25

  Homebrew MagSafe

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  [Freeload] sent us his custom MagSafe adapter build for laptops. MagSafe for those unaware is Apples (patented) power adapters that prevent damage to laptops when the cord is accidentally yanked from the socket. While we’ve seen some custom versions before of MagSafes they were usually bulky, ugly, and used a ton of unremovable glue. We [...]

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• February 10, 2010
• 15:36

  RGV laser

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  [Carl] sure has come a long way with laser modifications, now introducing his portable RGV Full Colour Laser. Although it feels just like yesterday when he showed us his green spiro and his Lego diffraction grating projector. But enough of the past, the RGV laser is built using a White Fusion Mixing Kit and his own [...]

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• February 08, 2010
• 5:54

  ‘Mod in the USA’ N900 PUSH competition

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  Just when you think you’ve heard all you can about the N900 PUSH competition, we have some more news for you. The original PUSH competition was only for UK members, but now Nokia has introduced the ‘Mod in the USA‘ N900 PUSH competition. Similar to the original, anyone (within region) can submit a cool mod, hack, [...]

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• February 05, 2010
• 6:14

  Ask a winner updates day 5: Answers

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  Not too long ago we asked our readers what they would like to hear about from the PUSH N900 winners and their hacks. We got some silly questions, and some serious, we asked both and now the PUSH teams have answered. The day has passed, the party is gone, and all that’s left is the final [...]

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• February 04, 2010
• 6:40

  Winners of the N900 PUSH Showcase tickets.

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  Like all great things, they must come to an end. As such, at 10am PST, this morning – our N900 Push competition came to a close. We had some really awesome answers, some really round about, and of course the obligatory – really bad ones. For those that are just on the EDGE of your [...]

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• February 03, 2010
• 7:00

  Ask a winner updates day 4: Answers

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  Not too long ago we asked our readers what they would like to hear about from the PUSH N900 winners and their hacks. We got some silly questions, and some serious, we asked both and now the PUSH teams have answered. Solderin Skaters are really making progress. They’ve gotten their printed circuit boards and mounting equipment [...]

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• 6:00

  PHP runtime rewritten, by Facebook?

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  Yes, its true. Facebook has completely rewritten the PHP runtime to make it faster and more efficient, and its completely open source. Named HipHop, its described as a source code transformer, changing PHP into optimized C++ which is then compiled using g++. Thus keeping the best aspects of PHP while taking advantage of the performance [...]

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• February 01, 2010
• 3:00

  Ask a winner updates day 3: Answers

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  Not too long ago we asked our readers what they would like to hear about from the PUSH N900 winners and their hacks. We got some silly questions, and some serious, we asked both and now the PUSH teams have answered. The days are getting closer and closer to the N900 PUSH Showcase, and as such [...]

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• January 30, 2010
• 16:00

  Hybrid analog/binary clock, the MK2

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  [Kieran] let us know about his hybrid analog/binary clock. The circuitry behind the clock is nothing too new. An Arduino combined with a Chronodot to produce an accurate clock. What we really enjoyed however was the creative implementation of an old British Telecom Linesman’s Multimeter as the case. The analog meter acts as the seconds [...]

  Tags:  hybrid analog clock kieran analog-meter creative-implementation accurate-clock arduino hacks  

• 6:43

  Ask a winner updates day 2: Answers

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  Not too long ago we asked our readers what they would like to hear about from the PUSH N900 winners and their hacks. We got some silly questions, and some serious, we asked both and now the PUSH teams have answered. The Haptic Guide team took a moment of their time for us today. Their N900 [...]

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• January 29, 2010
• 8:45

  And we’re back

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  Several of you were rather angry with us yesterday for our competition. Those not in the loop, our email competition@hackaday.com was not correctly configured and no body could send in their entries! But have no fear, we have fixed the problem and now you can send in your guesses. To remedy the situation we have decided [...]

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• January 28, 2010
• 15:44

  Ask a winner updates: Answers

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  Not too long ago we asked our readers what they would like to hear about from the PUSH N900 winners and their hacks. We got some silly questions, and some serious, we asked both and now the PUSH teams have answered. Todays team interview is KAPing with the N900. They’re N900 hack is the high flying [...]

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• 14:05

  Contest: win Push Showcase tickets

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  Who is ready to win some tickets to the PUSH N900 Showcase? The showcase is an event where all 5 teams from the Push N900 competition are going meet up in London and present their N900 hacks. Including N900s that fly, skate, Etch a Sketch(TM), and more. We also hear there is going to be a [...]

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• January 24, 2010
• 14:00

  PS3 hacked!

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  There is very little information out at the moment, but [geohot] has successfully hacked the PS3 to have full read and write access, bypassing the Hypervisor. At the moment he’s not revealing the exploit, but with this knowledge it wont be long before the PS3 finally gets whats coming. Keep track of [geohot's] progress on [...]

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• 12:44

  Hackaday links: Sunday January 24

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  Everyone Remembers Free day right? [The Ideanator's] Bus Pirate came in such a nice red box – he decided to make it his permanent case. [Chico] is in the middle of making a CNC, but decided to make some music with the steppers in the mean time. What looks like an old wooden box is actually [Ludvig's] [...]

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• January 21, 2010
• 14:52

  Frustromantic Box, a reverse Geocache

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  One of the best feelings in the world is when one of our posts inspires a fellow hacker to plan, create, and execute his or her own project. [Russ] let us know about his Frustromantic Box which he gained inspiration from the original Reverse Geochache we posted about. For those out of the loop, the box [...]

  Tags:  box reverse frustromantic russ fellow-hacker inspiration arduino hacks  

• 5:10

  Live high altitude balloon launch

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  [Terry] is planning to launch his high altitude balloon within the next few days. As we’ve seen before he has gone for a general setup – GPS tracking, environment sensors including temperature and humidity and pressure, and 2 on board cameras – all with an expected height of about 100,000 feet. What makes this project [...]

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• January 19, 2010
• 16:41

  Servo hacked linear actuator

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  [AntonB] has modified a servo into a powerful linear actuator (think: changing rotational motion into linear motion). The process is simple enough, modify a servo for continuous rotation and then add the custom built actuating shaft. You do of course lose the precision of the servo, but a small price to pay to be able [...]

  Tags:  motion actuator servo continuous-rotation linear-motion misc hacks  

• January 18, 2010
• 10:08

  Wii Nunchuk train controls

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  While we’ve been told all of our lives Wiis and trains just don’t mix, they never said anything about Wii Nunchuks. One terribly abused joke later, [Ken] tipped us off about his Wii Nunchuk controlled train set. By utilizing Digital Command Control (think pulse-width modulation) with an Arduino, he is able to have full control over [...]

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• January 17, 2010
• 12:00

  CNC brought to you by zip ties

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  [lucassiglo21] let us know about his finished 3 axis CNC (Translation via Google). While home CNCs are nothing new, we really liked this masterpiece. The CNC is entirely custom, from the electronic control boards (connected to a PC via parallel port) to the physical mill (with an end result of 30×30x15cm workable area). Our favorite [...]

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